On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:55:59PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Its the only right way to do it. As a general rule, a private ssh key > should NEVER be transferred off the machine it was generated on. Yeah, who needs backups of private keys anyways! > you have the same private key on more than one machine at a time, > you're Doing It Wrong. That's kinda silly. I work on a desktop or on a laptop. When working on my desktop, I really don't want to fire up my laptop just for the ssh key. And adding two keys in all authorized_keys for this is kinda silly, and does not add any security over the one copied key. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel